The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-22

itOrs are IN the city. The grand lodge
was called to order at 11:25 o'clock
Tuesday morning by the grand sire, and
went into secret session at 8 Pm.
The Trafalgar, the largest ironclad ever
was successfully launched
on Tuesday, at Portsmouth, Eng. The
vessel is Il, 1,94O tons burden and 1900
horse power. She is to carry twelve guns
-four of 81 tons and eight of 40 tons.
Her side armor is 25 inches thick.
Ensign N. s. Moseley, of the United
States surveying steamer, Macarthur,
surveying Shoalwatar bay, Oregon, was
in small boat which capsized last Sun
day. He was rescued, but died of con-
gestive chill soon after. He leaves wife
and infant child in Stockton, Cal.
A horrible accident on the Chicago,
Minneapolis & St. Paul railway, two
miles north this city, took place about
$50 last Monday morning. The north
and south bound trains collided at full
speed. Five trainmen were killed, and a
number of the passengers slightly injured.
The officials of the Northern Pacific
railroad are preparing call for meet
ing of the preferred stockholders to con-
slider a proposition to relieve the man.
agement from the restriction against
issuing new bonds, which was one of the
provisions under which the road was re-
organized.
Letters have been received by the
American board of commissions for for
eign missions picturing the terrible con-
dition of the people of the Sicilian plain,
in Asia Minor. Large numbers of the
inhabitants are starving The board has
decided to make a general appeal for
funds with which to alleviate the dis
tress.
Jerome W. Manning, of Cambridge,
has brought suit for 100000 against
Hon. Asa French, ct al, judges of the
court of commissioners of Alabama
claims. Manning was lawyer and was
debarred from practicing before them.
An attachment has been filed against the
estate of Judge French.
The freight department of the Mexican
Central railroad has made an exceeding
ly low export rate on Mexican fruit to
Chicago, Denver, st. Louis, Omaha, Min
neapolis, and other western cities, and as
great care will be taken in packing the
fruit, it is expected to compete with
Southern California oranges and other
fruits in western cities.
A report was circulated in New York,
Tuesday, to the effect that loan of from
$8,OOO,OOO to $1OOOO,O0O is about to be
made by third mortgage on the prop
perty of the Northern Pacific railroad
company, the loan to be for forty years
at per cent. MI. Willard, it is said,
would place the loan in Germany at 95
per cent. Direct confirmation of the
deal could not be obtained.
Consul Baker, of Buenos Ayres, has
made long and interesting report to
the state department, giving the re-
suit of the recent explorations of Terra
del Fuego. The Archipelago contains
valuable farming lands, forests and min
eral deposits. The Argentine govern
ment is taking steps to colonize and de-
velop the islands A governor has been
appointed. and thorough scientific ex-
ploration is to be undertaken.
The association of ex-confederate vet.
Grams at an immense meeting at Atlanta
Ga, Monday night, amid great enthus-
iasm, appointed committee of fifty tc
arrange for fitting reception of the
union veterans of the Army of Ohio, Ten.
.nessee and Cumberland, who fought
from Chattanooga to Atlanta. The pro
gramme of the reception and fraterniza'
ton will extend through the week begin
ming October 10 and will be elaborate.
Last Friday morning, at New Orleans
an explosion occurred in the grocery
store of Dominick NJ. Messina, at the
corner of Eighteenth and Dauphir
streets, and moment later the entire
building was on fire, and all escape from
the upper stories, where Messina and hif
family resided, was cut off. Every effort
of the fremen to rescue the unfortunatet
failed, and the entire family, consisting
OF Messina, his wife and four little chill
dren, were burned to death.
An east-bound passenger train on the
Atlantic & Pacific railroad was stopped
at Navajo station, Arizona, last Friday
by five masked men, who fred several
shots at the engineer, fireman and brake
man. They boarded the express trair
and robbed the safe, which only con
tanned small amount of money, but die
not interfere with the passengers. They
then mounted their horses and rode of
in sontherly direction. The Atlantic &
Pacific railroad and Wells, Fargo & Cos
express offer $1,000 each for the arrest
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